Re: A couple of questions about pyrex

"Stefan Behnel" <[email protected]> Tue, 12 May 2009 16:56:43 +0200 (CEST)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.pyrex
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Hi,

would you please stop top-posting? Thanks!

Yingjie Lan wrote:
> Changing features dramatically could cause a lot of troubles. I wonder if
> everybody will be happy with this:
>
> Simply allow 'class MyClass' to be equivalent to 'cdef class MyClass' when
> appropriate (e.g. when the body of the class contain some 'cdef'
> statements).

"contain cdef statements" is not a suitable criterion by itself, as both
types of classes have differences that users must be aware of.

This is a possible optimisation we discussed in Cython, though. I don't
remember what became of it, but I guess it was too far off back then and
still not trivial today.

Stefan